More Milk Doesn't Help You Lose More Fat
Dairy Foods in a Moderate Energy Restricted Diet Do Not Enhance Central Fat, Weight, and Intra-Abdominal Adipose Tissue Losses nor Reduce Adipocyte Size or Inflammatory Markers in Overweight and Obese Adults: A Controlled Feeding Study
Not medical advice. For informational purposes only. Always consult a healthcare professional. Terms
Surprising Findings
Increasing dairy intake raised vitamin D levels by 17%—but had zero effect on fat loss, inflammation, or metabolic health.
Many believe vitamin D from dairy drives fat loss, but this study shows the two are decoupled—even when vitamin D improves, fat doesn’t budge.
Practical Takeaways
If you love dairy, keep eating it during weight loss—it won’t hurt your progress. But don’t buy into ‘dairy diets’ promising extra fat loss.
Not medical advice. For informational purposes only. Always consult a healthcare professional. Terms
Surprising Findings
Increasing dairy intake raised vitamin D levels by 17%—but had zero effect on fat loss, inflammation, or metabolic health.
Many believe vitamin D from dairy drives fat loss, but this study shows the two are decoupled—even when vitamin D improves, fat doesn’t budge.
Practical Takeaways
If you love dairy, keep eating it during weight loss—it won’t hurt your progress. But don’t buy into ‘dairy diets’ promising extra fat loss.
Publication
Journal
Journal of Obesity
Year
2011
Authors
M. Van Loan, N. Keim, S. Adams, E. Souza, L. Woodhouse, A. Thomas, M. Witbracht, E. Gertz, B. Piccolo, A. Bremer, M. Spurlock
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Reduction in adipose tissue volume is accompanied by increased adipocyte density, reflecting smaller adipocyte size, improved vascularization, reduced hypoxia, and decreased local inflammation.
Eating more dairy doesn’t make fat cells shrink faster when people are on a diet—both groups’ fat cells got smaller at about the same rate.
Eating more dairy didn’t change the hormone that regulates calcium in the blood—so the body’s calcium system didn’t respond the way some theories predicted.
Even though people ate more dairy, their body didn’t make more of the active form of vitamin D—so the hormone that might affect fat cells stayed the same.
Eating more dairy while dieting didn’t make bad cholesterol go up or good cholesterol go down—it didn’t hurt heart health markers at all.